Vision in White
I was on a visit to a
premier engineering institution as part of my work. It was past 7 o clock in
the evening. The path which led us in to the campus looked enchanting with the dimly lit up street lights and lush greenery bordering it.
As
we were moving forward, I saw a deer at a distance. I was not surprised given
the size of the campus and its expansive vegetation. As we went nearer, we
noticed that it was no ordinary deer. It was a black buck and it’s skin was
pristine white! It resembled a full moon in a pitch black sky. The sight was
magical, the faint street lights adding to the aura.
What
caught my attention beyond the stunning beauty of the magnificent creature was the fearlessness in
its eyes. As the car drew nearer, it looked at us with its head raised. Neither
was there any sense of urgency about its movement nor to the way it looked away
from us. Then it started walking-slowly and elegantly in to the darkness. The driver stopped the
car till it passed by. What a sight to behold!
The
next day early morning, on my way to the campus, I saw there were many deer inside the campus and all of them mirrored the same fearlessness. For a minute,
I wished; if only there was such harmony among the beings on our planet. The
trust and the lack of fear filled the air with a silent symphony.
I
was leaving the campus by twilight. Bidding farewell to Jackson and Athira who
very sweetly obliged to our requests during the process, I secretly wished to
see the albino black buck once more. Lending a half ear to the driver’s
monologue on the vastness of the campus, my eyes went far and wide
in search of the ‘deer friend’.
It was a long winding inroad and I asked the driver
to go slow. At the last quarter mile, was grazing, the white beauty on the vast expanse of a green lawn. Just about when our car was to
go out of its sight, it looked up. The same elegant look with an understated
pride. It brought on a smile which reached my eyes :) .
Arun
Babu.
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